Building Bridges

This past Wednesday was my chance again to herd cats. It was Webelos night and tonights activity was to see if the Webelos could build a bridge using mini-marshmellows and toothpicks.

As you can see they got into it with great enthusiasm, especially when I told them that they did't have to use all of the marshmellows in construction. They found other uses for the marshmellows besides the obvious eating.

The completed project was able to span two stacks of books, and took only about 30 minutes to complete.

The final step was to share with the Cubs what they had learned about bridge building, including the part about being able to eat the building materials.